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Book Sailor s Start Up

Download or read book Sailor s Start Up written by Doug Werner and published by Tracks Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crisp, fun-to-read text covers the essentials of gear, technique, safety, and etiquette for both monohull and catamaran sailing.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All Hands

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sailor Talk

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  • Author : Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
  • Publisher : Studies in Port and Maritime H
  • Release : 2021-03
  • ISBN : 1800859651
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Sailor Talk written by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and published by Studies in Port and Maritime H. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk.' The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich, layered, and complex culture of sailors in port and at sea. From this argument many other compelling threads emerge, including questions relating to the seafarer's multifaceted identity, maritime labor, questions of performativity, the ship as 'theater, ' the varied and multiple registers of 'sailor talk, ' and the foundational role of maritime language in the lives and works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London. The book also includes nods to James Fenimore Cooper, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Meticulous scholarly research underpins the close readings of literary texts and the scrupulously detailed biographical accounts of three major sailor-writers. The author's own lived experience as a seafarer adds a refreshingly materialist dimension to the subtle literary readings. The book represents a valuable addition to a growing scholarly and political interest in the sea and sea literature. By taking the sailor's viewpoint and listening to sailors' voices, the book also marks a clear intervention in this developing field.

Book A Sailor s Adventures

Download or read book A Sailor s Adventures written by Friedrich Gerstäcker and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sailors Tacking from Murder

Download or read book Sailors Tacking from Murder written by Bob Gebhardt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A down to earth, wealthy and industrious young woman, who was quite fond and compassionate for her elderly uncle, became mired in down in his Murder. This uncle is the source of her original wealth and was to name her in his will. She was not only a suspect; she became the subject of mortal danger from others who conspired to receive her part of his estate. Her Uncle Stan always tried to push her and other close relatives into accomplishing great things. In his elder and sickly years Jill continued catering to her uncle by visiting him and frequently reading adventures of sailing the Caribbean to him and pretending they were the participants. On his death he continued challenging her and others, in his will, and in this case to become sailors, as in their lounge chair adventures. To receive an additional portion of the inheritance she and others were challenged to learn to sail and single hand a sizable sailboat from North Florida to Key West but sabotage was on the menu.

Book Cruising World

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1816 pages

Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hello Sailor

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  • Author : Paul Baker
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-10-23
  • ISBN : 1317868706
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Hello Sailor written by Paul Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows what it was like to be queer at sea at a time when land meant straightness.

Book Reports Upon Openings in Industry Suitable for Disabled Sailors and Soldiers

Download or read book Reports Upon Openings in Industry Suitable for Disabled Sailors and Soldiers written by Great Britain. Trade Advisory Committee and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pilot  or Sailors  magazine   Continued as  The Chart and compass

Download or read book The Pilot or Sailors magazine Continued as The Chart and compass written by British and foreign sailors' society and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sailor s Log

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  • Author : Frederick T. Wilson
  • Publisher : Kent State University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780873387828
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book A Sailor s Log written by Frederick T. Wilson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick T. Wilson was an engineer who carried the rank of first-class petty officer and served in one of the US Navy's first modern battleships, the USS Oregon. He also participated in the relief of Peking during the Boxer rebellion. This is an uncensored picture of enlisted life.

Book The  Sailor Prince  in the Age of Empire

Download or read book The Sailor Prince in the Age of Empire written by Miriam Magdalena Schneider and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of the remarkable revival of monarchy in nineteenth-century Europe through a new prism: the public persona of the ‘Sailor Prince’. It highlights how four usually overlooked dynastic figures – the younger sons and brothers of monarchs such as Queen Victoria or Emperor William II – decisively helped to advertise their respective dynasties in the fiercely contested political and popular mass market, by aligning them with one of the most myth-invested cultural presences and power-political symbols of the Age of Empire: the navy. The 'Sailor Prince' in the Age of Empire traces the unusual professional careers, the adventurous empire travels and the multifaceted public representations of Prince Alfred of Britain (1844-1900), Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1862-1929), Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858-1939) and Prince Georgios of Greece (1869-1957). Through the prism of these four personality brands, the study also investigates issues such as the role of the maritime sphere in national identity, the nature and extent of nineteenth-century monarchical modernization, the relevance of intra- and inter-imperial royal diplomacy in the Age of High Imperialism, and the curious collaboration of middle-class opinion-makers and entrepreneurs with Europe’s monarchical establishment.

Book Songquest

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  • Author : Ivan H. Walton
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2018-02-05
  • ISBN : 0814344607
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Songquest written by Ivan H. Walton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field notes of a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs, stories, and cultural history of Great Lakes sailors in the 1930s. Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors living along the shores of the Great Lakes in the 1930s. His collection is unique in the annals of Great Lakes folklore. It began as a search for songs but broadened into a collection of weather signs, shipboard beliefs, greenhorn tales, and stories of the intense rivalry between sailors and the steamboat men who replaced them. Edited by Joe Grimm, Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton is a selection from the daily journals Walton wrote during his travels as a folklore collector. It is clear that Walton, a professor of English at the University of Michigan, both admired the sailors of the Great Lakes for what they had done during their working years and worried about them as they entered the twilight of their lives. Walton went beyond the songs he set out to find and captured the pitch and roll of the Great Lakes alive with white-winged schooners. His writings provide a clear picture of the colorful individuals he met and interviewed—captains, cabin boys, tugmen, chandlers, boardinghouse owners, dredgers, and light keepers. Walton also documented the methods he used and recorded his personal thoughts about his nomadic life and the events going on around him during the 1930s, including the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election, and the end of Prohibition.

Book The Kedge anchor  Or  Young Sailor s Assistant

Download or read book The Kedge anchor Or Young Sailor s Assistant written by William N. Brady and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sailor s History of the U S  Navy

Download or read book A Sailor s History of the U S Navy written by Thomas J Cutler and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's sailors have too little appreciation of their heritage. To counter this problem, Thomas J. Cutler has compiled a history of our naval heritage in the form of A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy. The work is unique in two important ways. First, it is written thematically rather than chronologically. This allows recent history to be blended with more distant (but important) events in ways that will reinforce the timelessness as well as the timeliness of the U.S. Navy, thereby having a greater appeal to today's sailor. There are a number of themes being used—the most obvious are manifested in chapters with the themes of "honor," "courage," and "commitment," but others serve as useful vehicles as well; for example, there is a chapter called "What's in a Name?" that briefly discusses how ships have been/are named and then uses the many ships that have carried the name ""Enterprise"" as the theme for presenting significant portions of the Navy's history. The other unique characteristic of this history is that it focuses wherever possible on the roles of ALL sailors rather than just the officers. That is not to say that Jones and Decatur are not there, but that the emphasis is along the lines of "the crew of the Bon Homme Richard fought on into the night..." rather than "Jones fought..." Also, there are plenty of individual sailor heroes who can stand alongside the Perrys and the Farraguts (Boatswain's Mate First Class Williams who won the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, Dorie Miller of Pearl Harbor fame, Gunner's Mate Third Class Paul Henry Carr at the battle off Samar, etc.). Some emphasis upon what it was like to be a sailor (working and living conditions) at different times is included as well.

Book King Arthur s Socks and Other Village Plays

Download or read book King Arthur s Socks and Other Village Plays written by Floyd Dell and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Naval History of the United States

Download or read book The Naval History of the United States written by Willis J. Abbot and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.